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Summary:

"Chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, and an order of onion rings, please." Chinese restaurants in small town Canada are at once everywhere -- you would be hard pressed to find a town without a Chinese restaurant -- and yet they are conspicuously absent in critical discussions of Chinese diasporic culture or even in popular writing about Chinese food. In Eating Chinese, Lily Cho examines Chinese restaurants as spaces that define, for those both inside and outside the community, what it means to be Chinese and what it means to be Chinese-Canadian. Despite restrictions on immigration and explicitly racist legislation at national and provincial levels, Chinese immigrants have long dominated the restaurant industry in Canada. While isolated by racism, Chinese communities in Canada were still strongly connected to their non-Chinese neighbours through the food that they prepared and served. Cho looks at this surprisingly ubiquitous feature of small-town Canada through menus, literature, art, and music. An innovative approach to the study of diaspora, Eating Chinese brings to light the cultural spaces crafted by restaurateurs, diners, cooks, servers, and artists.

Table of Contents:

• Sweet and sour : historical presence and diasporic agency
• On the menu : time and Chinese restaurant counterculture
• Disappearing Chinese café : white nostalgia and the public sphere
• Diasporic counterpublics : the Chinese restaurant as institution and installation
• "How taste remembers life" : diaspora and the memories that bind.

Author/Creator:

Cho, Lily, 1975- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

Eating Chinese: culture on the menu in small town Canada [by Cho, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Eating Chinese [by Cho, L.] (Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2010 — ISBN 9781442641051; LCCN 2010511477; OCLC Number 466429805)

Related Series:

Cultural spaces

Subjects:

Chinese restaurants — Canada — History

Chinese — Canada — Social conditions

Chinese restaurants

Chinese — Social conditions

Chinese

Canada

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 207 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TX945.4 .C46 2010eb

ISBNs:

9781442686472 (electronic book)
1442686472 (electronic book)
9781442659995 (electronic book)
1442659998 (electronic book)
9781442641051 (bound) [Invalid]
1442641053 (bound) [Invalid]
9781442610408 (paperback) [Invalid]
1442610409 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

811563665